Evidence-Based Knee Injections for the Management of Arthritis

Pain Medicine, 05/25/2012

Cheng OT et al. – The authors conclude that strong evidence supports the use of intraarticular knee injection as a valuable intervention in the continuum of management of arthritis between conservative treatment and knee surgeries.

Methods

The authors systematically searched PUBMED/MEDLINE and the Cochrane databases for articles published on knee injections and evaluated their level of evidence and recommendations according to established criteria.